Kathryn Trueblood has received the Rico Award in Prose, the Goldenberg Prize for Fiction, and the Red Hen Press Short Story Award. Her work is situated firmly in the medical humanities. She is finishing a memoir in essays about her mother’s decision to voluntarily stop eating and drinking rather than enter assisted living during Covid 19. Trueblood’s most recent book, Take Daily As Needed, treats parenting while chronically ill with the desperado humor the subject deserves (University of New Mexico Press, 2019). Her previous novel, The Baby Lottery, deals with the repercussions of infertility in a female friend group (a Book Sense Pick in 2007). Her story collection, The Sperm Donor’s Daughter, takes a look at assisted reproduction and received a Special Mention for the Pushcart Prize in 2000. Trueblood’s stories and articles have been published in Poets & Writers Magazine, the Bellevue Literary Review, Medical Literary Messenger, The Los Angeles Review, Glimmer Train, The Seattle Review, Zyzzyva, and others. She is a professor of English at Western Washington University and a faculty member of The Red Badge Project, a non-profit organization serving active-duty soldiers and veterans in Washington through the use of storytelling techniques. The anthology she edited, Stories Deployed: The Veteran Chronicles, won the Magazine of the Year Award from the Washington VFW Association in 2022.